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Phys.org / How scientists prepare expeditions in remote environments

Scientific expeditions require months of planning before scientists can acquire the first data. A bark cuts through the Arctic silence, waking Anna up. She slept only three hours after collecting the last sample. Anna reaches ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Panicking scientists, canceled experiments: Federal funding cuts turn research dean to crisis management specialist

Fielding frantic faculty emails and panicked texts was not how I had hoped my 2025 would begin. Little did I imagine that my role as a research dean at a medical school would be taken over by navigating chaotic grant terminations ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Image: NISAR's View of Mount Rainier

This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington's Mount Rainier. The image is cropped from a much larger swath spanning the Pacific Northwest on a cloudy day; NISAR's L-band SAR ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / People over 60 feel younger in the morning, suggesting it is the best time to maximize well-being activities

A study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University suggests that mornings are the optimal time for older adults to engage in age-related interventions to maximize well-being. The research involved 86 men and women aged ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Novel measurement confirms a 50-year-old prediction: Dark points are faster than light

A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron microscopy: the direct measurement of "dark points" within light waves. By doing so, the researchers ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky—for everyone on Earth

More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes.

Mar 29, 2026
Phys.org / Money worries and job dissatisfaction drove Europe's populist boom, research suggests

While immigration is often blamed for the rise of populism, it was cost of living and male job dissatisfaction that played a major role in the European surge in support for populist politics a decade ago, according to a University ...

23 hours ago
Phys.org / What learning English means to migrants

It is widely accepted that learning English is essential for many adult migrants who move to the UK. Yet in the last census, over 1 million residents in England and Wales reported not speaking English well or at all.

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Improved carp boosts profits by 25% in Bangladesh's polyculture ponds

A selectively bred carp strain is boosting productivity and profits across polyculture ponds in Bangladesh, improving overall pond performance in smallholder systems. A completed study shows that the third generation (G3) ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Medical schools no longer required to teach health inequities

Future doctors may no longer be required to learn about how social and economic factors affect health.

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Framework unifies the classical and quantum Mpemba effects

Physicists have developed a new theoretical framework which unifies a wide array of seemingly unrelated "Mpemba effects": counterintuitive cases where systems driven further from equilibrium relax faster than those closer ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / A rare 'triple-double' radio galaxy discovered using MeerKAT

Astronomers have discovered an exceptionally rare radio galaxy that has three distinct pairs of radio lobes. This system falls into a subpopulation of radio galaxies known as "triple-double" radio galaxies (TDRGs). Located ...

Mar 30, 2026